There should be an Intrade market related to JCCC’s constant legal battles. Well, Converge Magazine lost some credibility these past months. In 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and again in 2011, Converge named Johnson County Community College a “top-rated community colleges for digital technology.” But how can this be, when JCCC leaders want $10,000 for 20 Emails, and when JCCC is claiming it needs to hire an outside data | Read More »

To The Johnson County Sun’s credit, one thing the left-wing paper always does is to offer an opportunity for all candidates for major races to write in their own words why they’re running for office. The Sun asks a few questions, and candidates can write almost anything they want, under a certain number of words. The responses from candidates for Johnson County Community College Board of Trustees were | Read More »

I’d like to highlight this column by the respected regional editorial news site Kaw and Border, “Steve’s Rose Colored Glasses Regarding JCCC.” For a brief back-ground. Steve Rose now writes a column for The Kansas City Star. He used to own a paper that his father started, The Johnson County Sun, which is now in its waning days. While Rose is liberal, it’s not his liberalism that’s troublesome, but | Read More »

This college’s repeat, illegal behavior is well known and well-proven in Kansas City. Yet, leaders at Johnson County Community College continue to go out of their way to be all the more unethical. Just after being scolded by a federal judge that they illegally expelled four nursing students, JCCC is now spending over $100,000 of the taxapayers’ money to focus on its “image” and “brand.” | Read More »

My recent Email about the ongoing pattern of unaccountability at Johnson County Community College. Click here for a Web-friendly version. (Note: I’m running for one of three at-large seats available on April 5 for this college board. There are seven total seats. I held the position from 2005-09 and narrowly lost re-election in 2009). Benjamin Hodge Kansas GOP Delegate, 2009-’10 Kansas Representative, 2007-’08 JCCC Trustee, 2005-’09 Web site: BenjaminHodge.com | Read More »

(Click here for the PDF version of the following transcript) IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF KANSAS DOYLE BYRNES, Plaintiff, vs. JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, DR. CLARISSA CRAIG, MS. JEANNE WALSH, MS. AMBER DELPHIA, DR. MARILYN RHINEHART and DR. DENNIS DAY, Defendants. District Court Case No. 10-2690 TRANSCRIPT OF RULING OF THE COURT On the 6th day of January, 2011, came on to be | Read More »

At 50,000 thousands students every year (many non-degree-seeking), Johnson County Community College is the largest in Kansas and among the largest in the Midwest. They don’t care much for any law, state or federal. Just since 2005, the college has been guilty of violating the state open meetings law, the state open records law, the federal First Amendment, there has been at least one likely | Read More »

Johnson County Community College is nationally known as a corrupt institution run by dishonest leaders like President Terry Calaway, ex-bankers Lynn Mitchelson and Jon Stewart, and Gardner funeral home director Shirley Brown-VanArsdale. They’ve broken laws left and right — the First Amendment, the Kansas Open Meetings Act, the Kansas Open Records Act, sexual molestation by former President Charles Carlsen, the likely illegal firing of at least | Read More »

Click here to read part one and part two about Jason Osterhaus’ victory over establishment icon and liberal Republican Larry Winn the Third. For today’s article, I’ll copy below my mail newsletter today, in which I discuss the 4th District County Commission race. In summary: the number one reason that Jason Osterhaus won was because he out-worked his opponent. Alongside this, Osterhaus communicated a clear, simple, economically | Read More »

“Learning comes first” at Johnson County Community College. Or something. Click here to listen to this interview at the previous Red County article, in which I’ve included the YouTube audio of the Darla Jaye program from Friday, May 28. Below is the transcript from the Darla Jaye program on Friday night, May 28, 2010. Darla Jaye spent the full first hour during the 6-7 p.m. slot discussing | Read More »

Below is the YouTube audio recording from the Darla Jaye program on Friday night, May 28, 2010. Darla Jaye spent the full first hour during the 6-7 p.m. slot discussing the latest scandal at JCCC under President Terry Calaway and Board Chair Jon Stewart. Kathy Brown is a nurse and an attorney who went back to school in early 2009 for a year-long course, but | Read More »

Click here to view a Web page version of my recent Email on this topic. Listen in tonight at 6 p.m. on 980 AM radio, as Darla Jaye interviews Catholic lawyer and former Johnson County Community College student Kathy Brown. Click here to listen live at KMBZ’s Web site. It is amazing, the ongoing unethical and incompetent leadership of JCCC leaders President Terry Calaway, elected Trustee | Read More »

My most recent political Email (click to view a more reader-friendly format, with pictures): Tuesday, March 16, 2010 Promise of “hiring freeze” broken: Eighty (80) new administrators at Johnson County Community College In the real world, Americans are suffering. At the largest Kansas college, it’s a liberal utopia. JCCC leaders sell out taxpayers to win favor with the KNEA teachers union, adding 80 new first-time administrative | Read More »